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In this 3 part episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen walk you through Sysinternals ProcDump. ProcDump allows you to capture the memory of a process running on the computer. The dump file can be of varying size and can be taken with varying outage durations. Dumps can be triggered immediately or can be triggered by a variety of events including CPU utilization, Memory utilization, a Performance Counter, a Hung Window and/or Native/Managed exceptions.

Part 1 covers what the tool captures and the outage durations that can be expected.Part 2 (this week) goes through the wide variety of triggering options; in particular 1st and 2nd chance exceptions.Part 3 goes through Windows 8 Modern Application support and Process Monitor logging support.

* The Performance Counter (-p) trigger does use the seconds (-s) parameter.** ProcDump v5.1 (not yet released) adds procdump.exe -i <folder> support to set ProcDump as the postmortem debugger for both x64 and x86 applications (includes a JIT context).*** If you are using ProcDump v5.0 as the postmortem debugger (doesn't include a JIT context), use these AeDebug settings:Auto = "1"Debugger = "C:\my\sysinternals\procdump.exe %ld -ma c:\dumps"

Of course while watching this episode after watching the 2 before I had a system crash about half way thru. Got to about 8 minutes left after system a restart and had a system hang. Acted like the video hung this time.Any tips on finding root cause on this one?

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